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During a 2004 procedure to correct a testicular malformation, Romanian doctor Naum Ciomu lost his temper after making a surgical error and proceeded to sever his patient’s penis and then cut it into three pieces. Ciomu was barred from practicing medicine for three years and ordered to pay damages to the victim.
According to Ken Hanke’s unauthorized biography of Tim Burton, during the time the filmmaker worked at Disney he often “took to sitting in a closet or hiding under his desk to avoid dealing with anyone.”
During the summer months, one child dies in a portable outdoor pool every five days.
Author Henry James (The Turn of the Screw) once wrote that “an enthusiasm for [Edgar Allan] Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection.”
Landing in debtor’s prison in medieval England was frequently a death sentence as the incarcer- ated wouldn’t be freed until he or she not only paid off all outstanding owings, but also the new ones accrued for the food and clothing consumed while in lock-up.
Bobby Fuller, singer of “I Fought the Law,” died in July 1966 when he asphyxiated on a build-up of gasoline fumes inside his unlocked car. Some still consider his death suspicious.
A Woodstock, Ontario structure is adorned with the death mask of Thomas Cook (as a warning to would-be criminals), who was hanged at the building – a former jail and courthouse – in 1862 for beating his wife to death. The executioner accidentally made the hanging rope too long and Cook was decapitated, his head apparently rolling into the crowd of onlookers.
More than 160 different actors have played Dracula since the beginning of cinema. The Count is the most filmed movie monster of all time.
A disgruntled employee at the Singapore Zoo committed suicide by animal attack in 2008 by jumping into the tiger enclosure and provoking the animals.
Pittsburgh police were called to a blood-covered hotel room earlier this year, after firefighters dis- covered the gruesome chamber during a routine call. Detectives spent several hours investigating the scene before realizing that it was an abandoned set from the horror movie New Terminal Hotel.
Robert Gary Jones died last year when he was mown down by a plane making an emergency landing on the South Carolina beach where he was jogging.
David Arquette’s character, Dewey, was supposed to die at the end of Scream (1996), but due to negative audience reaction during test screenings, the ending was changed so that he survives.
In January 2007, French rapist Nicolas Cocaign strangled his cellmate and then attempted to cut out his heart and eat it, but what he actually removed and consumed was the man’s lung and some of his muscle tissue.
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